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Consciousness = Metaphysics + Physics + Biology
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: Received: 5 September 2024 / Approved: 9 September 2024 / Online: 9 September 2024 (11:28:23 CEST)
How to cite: Laibelman, A. M. Consciousness = Metaphysics + Physics + Biology. Preprints 2024, 2024090647. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.0647.v1 Laibelman, A. M. Consciousness = Metaphysics + Physics + Biology. Preprints 2024, 2024090647. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.0647.v1
Abstract
Theories about consciousness—what it is/is not; who does/does not possess it; included/excluded functional modes; how/when it appears to be operational—are regularly published in books and articles. This essay opines that while many, if not most, of those speculations contain elements properly subsumed within a comprehensive doctrine, none satisfactorily fulfills its subject’s immense scope. Consciousness = Metaphysics + Physics + Biology is intended to rectify the situation by providing omitted components. As the title states, this is a wide-ranging approach neglecting many relevant details found in cited references, but also including ideas not found elsewhere in the easily accessible literature.
Keywords
consciousness; self-consciousness; cosmogony; cosmology
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Philosophy
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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